Rocket, Flying Model Kit, Gemini-Titan

This is an unassembled Gemini Titan flying rocket model built by Estes Industries. It is based on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's rocket of the same name that launched the Gemini program astronauts into space. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa capsule, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of the parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. Not included in this kit are the motor, the launch controller that is used to ignite the motor, and the launch pad from which the model is launched.

This model was donated by G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the hobby of flying models.